What comes after bed, boots and brot? Two years after Berliners spent their weekends on collection efforts, attending to the immediate needs of the influx of refugees to the city, Neelo Aysha speaks to a young thespian who continues to fly there during his university breaks to share the tools of his trade with the migrants.
Category Archives: HUMANITARIAN
Feilidh Dwyer: A journey through Israel & the occupied West Bank Territories
This August I spent two weeks travelling through Israel during a meltingly hot summer. Aside from visiting holy sites in Jerusalem, partying in Tel-Aviv, worshipping air conditioners and chowing down on pita and hummus, five of my days were spent in Palestine’s West Bank. While the intention of this piece is not to apportion blame to only one side in the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine, from the little I observed, there is a massive power imbalance at play in the region.